“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #115 “What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not …
A Country Song or Two
“His many late hours spent in acquiring this valuable profit-and-loss expertise were a large part of the reason that his wife Mary was currently spending assorted hours in the arms of another man. A country song or two has been written about this kind of thing, and the Arkansas poet who wrote them knows whereof …
Something That Happens Sometimes
“For example, many women push their husbands to make a decision, and then they push some more. After pushing a little more after that, the husband finally — in an ‘all right, all right’ kind of way — makes a decision to go in that direction. The wife knows that he is only doing this …
Work On What Needs It
“A preacher should never go out of his way to find controversial matter, not go out of his way to avoid it. He who continually shrinks from conflict should stir himself up to faithfulness; he who is by nature belligerent, should cultivate forbearance and courtesy” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 96).
Explaining the Rooster
I am happy to continue my discussion of what certainty means with Micah Neely. There is a lot of fundamental agreement here, but I believe a crucial application of this agreement has gone missing. I entirely agree that when it comes to truth metaphor is all that is, that it is metaphor “all the way …
Not Whether But Which, As I Keep Saying
It is not hard to understand the chaos and pandemonium going down around us if you keep certain inescapable realities in the forefront of your mind. Cornelius Van Til called it epistemological self-consciousness. C.S. Lewis referred to the idea this way in his great novel, That Hideous Strength. “I mean this,” said Dimble, answering the …
My Work Here Is Done
So then, yesterday I read an article by Anthony Bradley, here, that I thought was fantastic. And so I tweeted this: “Gosh, this was good. Anthony Bradley jacks it out of the park.” Afterwards, I read this tweet from John Piper: “Bradley messes up a good article by saying David Platt “misses ‘radical’ ideas in …
Gospel, Church, World: Gospel Presence VI
Introduction Our goal in this life, and our goal as a congregation, ought to be three-fold—we should want to get the gospel straight, we should want to get the church right, and we should want to get the world restored. Let’s walk through it in that order. The Text: “But ye are come unto mount …
Master of Misdirection
This Table is set for you as a means of grace. God intends to strengthen you, not only in terms of your endurance, but also in your wits. The serpent, it says, was craftier than all the other creatures. And the Lord Jesus teaches us to keep our innocence, but to grow in our wisdom. …
A Greater Abraham
The judgments of God are slow in coming, but sudden when they come. We have a tendency, once any state of affairs has continued past three weeks, to consider it our lot in life or our birthright, depending on whether it is hard or easy. This is why we are always surprised—whether the surprise is …